Ensure your innovation never falls behind


Xilinx Developer Forum (XDF), held in three locations globally each year, took place at Beijing National Convention Center on December 3-4, 2019!



Over 100 global industry leaders and technical experts gathered at XDF which was an unprecedented platform for meaningful engagement between developers and experts. Attendees had the valuable opportunity to experience the latest Xilinx-based innovations from worldwide leading companies in AI, data center, 5G, industrial, automotive and many other fields. It also conducted 75 beneficial technical sessions covering industry insights, cutting-edge technologies and leading applications as well as over 20 hours of hands-on labs.

As the diamond sponsor and the largest global partner of Xilinx, Avnet showcased the extended products and services of its new ecosystem at the event with the following solutions.



Avnet’s RFSoC Development Kit Featuring RFSoC Explorer

Direct RF sampling with Xilinx Zynq^® UltraScale+^TM RFSoC from antenna to digital using tools from MathWorks and industry-leading RF components from Qorvo. Standards-compliant waveforms from MathWorks LTE ToolboxTM streaming from MATLAB to RFSoC over Gigabit Ethernet.

Figure 1. Avnet’s RFSoC Development Kit



Dual Camera Sensor on Ultra96

Dual ON Semiconductor AR0144 camera sensors + AP1302 Image Signal Processor (ISP) interface to the Ultra96 board. Seamless video capture and display drivers on Linux platform enable portable video processing and AI analytics.



Click Board Expansion on Ultra96

Expand your Ultra96’s capability with MikroElektronika Click Boards. Over 700 different Click Boards provide sensor, display, storage, timing, mixed-signal, and audio expansion. This simple demo shows a 6-degree-of-freedom sensor communicating in Linux to Ultra96.



Figure 2. Click Board Expansion on Ultra96



UltraZed-EV VCU H.264 Encoding and Network Streaming Demo

Avnet’s port of the Xilinx ZCU106 Video Codec Unit TRD, allowing each of the functional modules to be ported and inserted. Complete walk through with instructional blogs, demo videos, companion videos, build your own or use provided binaries!



Ultra96 Accelerates Autonomous Robot

The TurtleBot3 Burger is a popular Robot Operating System (ROS) platform retrofitted with an Ultra96-V2 board, upgrading the capability from the Raspberry Pi board. Using Xilinx SDSoC and Vivado HLS tools, a compute intensive portion of the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithm is accelerated within Xilinx Programmable Logic and accessed via a ROS-style abstraction layer for the hardware accelerator.



Figure 3. Ultra96 + TURTLEBOT3 Burger



Multi-Camera + Xilinx DPU On UltraZ AD Board

UltraZ-AD is the completed platform for deep learning development which targets autonomous driving/self-controllable embedded products.

The board contains 2 sets of Xilinx Zynq^® UltraScale+^TM MPSoC device and is eligible for autonomous driving test or embedded into autonomous controlled robot, serving separately for object recognition, space recognition, and route searching algorithm.



MIPSOLOGY’S ZEBRA Deep Learning Demo

Zebra by Mipsology is a high performance Deep Learning inference solutions for FPGA. Zebra seamlessly replaces or complements CPUs/GPUs, allowing any neural network to compute faster, with lower power consumption, at lower cost. Zebra deploys swiftly, seamlessly and painlessly without knowledge of underlying hardware technology, use of specific compilation tools or to changes to the neural network, the training, the framework and the application.





2U2S Server Platform Designed For 3D Rendering, Technical Computing Applications

Avnet Integrated demonstrate 2U2S server product and targets 3D rendering, technical computing applications. They worked with Xilinx and ISV Mipsology to showcase Alveo-based high performance AI inference solution.



Element14 supply chain solution

Element14, a subsidiary of Avnet, participated in this conference and demonstrated FPGA development kit, engineer community and complete supply chain solutions for electronic components. Our target is to provide prompt, convenient component purchase and technology sharing platform to accelerate startup company growth.




Welcome to participate XDF in Beijing, it will strength your ability, acclerate your technology deployment and ensure your innovation never falls behind.



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